Curtain-fixture



(No Model.)

R. E. DOTY & C. MILLER. CURTAIN FIXTURE.

No. 591,112. Patented 001. 5, 1897.

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NlTED ROBERT E. DOTY AND CHARLES .MI LLER,OF .VERGENNES,ILLINO]IS.

CURTAIN- FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,112, dated October 5,1897.

Application filed June 25, 1896.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT E. DOTY and CHARLES MILLER, citizens of the United States, residing at Vergennes, in the county of Jackson and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Curtain-Fixture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain-fixtures; and the object in view is to provide a device of this character which is adjustable for the purpose of accommodating curtain shade rollers and poles of different sizes or lengths, being applicable to any window-casing.

One of theprincipal aims of the present invention is to so construct the fixture as to render the ordinary curtain-shade-roller brackets available, said brackets thus forming a part of the fixture and being adjustable there with.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the subjoined description.

The invention consists in a curtain-fixture embodying certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an inside elevation of the upper portion of a window-frame, &c., showing the improved fixture applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective View of one of the fixtures complete. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the same. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the adjustable portion of the device. Fig. 5 is a similar view of an ordinary curtain shade-roller bracket. Fig. 6 is a detail longitudinal section showing the operation of the device.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a pair of plates secured to the upper'portion of the window-casing, one at each side thereof. Each of said platesis provided with a central longitudinal slot 2, and adjacentto each edge of said slot the plate is toothed or serrated, as indicated at 3. One end of the slot 2 is expanded inward to admit the sliding and adjustable member of the fixture hereinafter described. The serrated Serial No. 596,862. (No model.)

edges 3 are also undercut or rabbeted upon their inner sides, as shown at i, to admit of the longitudinal sliding of the pintles of the adjustable'member.

V 5 designates the adjustable part of the fixture, which is substantially T-shaped, comprising a bracket receiving and clamping portion 6, adapted to move upon the outside of the plate 1, and a shank 7, connecting centrally thereto and projecting at right angles therefrom and provided with oppositely-projecting pintles 8. The shank 7 slides in the slot 2 of the plate 1, and the pintles 8 move behind the serrated edges 3. The portion 6 is provided upon its inner surface with studs 9, which are adapted to enter the screw-holes 10 of the ordinary curtain shade roller bracket (shown at 11-) and having the eyebearing for the spindle of the roller. The part 6 is also provided upon its inner surface with a flange 12, extending partially around its edge, so as to embrace perforated ears of the bracket 11. The base of the bracket 11 is thus confined between the part 6 and the plate 1, and the studs 9 prevent the bracket from twisting or becoming loose.

The shank 7 is extended at a slightly oblique angleto form a lever-arm 1 3, and the extremity of this arm is provided with a threaded perforation for receiving the inner end of a threaded thumb-screw 14: which passes through an opening in a U-shaped sliding grip 15, having its terminal edges toothed or serrated and engaging the serrated edges 3. By loosening the screw 14 the adjustable member of the device may be moved lengthwise of the slotted plate and brought to any desired point, whereupon by tightening the screw the lever-arm 13 will be drawn outward, thereby rocking the adjustable part of the fixture upon the pintles 8, which act as fulcrum's. This moves the part 6, which constitutes a clamping-jaw, toward the plate 1 and clamps or binds the base of the bracket 11 between it and the plate 1, holding said bracket firmly and immovably.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that curtain-shade-roller brackets of the ordinary form and already in use may be utilized in connection with the adjustable fixture and that said brackets may be moved toward or away from each other for accomw said jaw and provided with side pintles, said i shank being of a width to fit and' slide along modating rollers or poles of different lengths; also, that the movable part of the device may be disconnected from the slotted plate by moving the same to one end of the plate, when the pintles 8 may pass out through the expanded end of the slot 2.

The plates 1 may be secured to the lintel.

vice comprising a jaw having an outlying flange, a shank extending at right angles to the slot with the pintles upon one side of the plate and said shank extending from the pintles through to the opposite side of the slot, a grip straddling the outer end of the shank and having serrated terminals, and a binding-screw for the grip, the space between the shank and the flange on the clamp being just sufficient to snugly hold a curtain-roller bracket, substantially as described.

2. A curtain-fixture consisting of a slotted plate 1 rabbeted and provided with serrations, the adjustable part comprising the bracket receiving and clamping portion 6 having flange 12 and studs 9, and the shank 7 provided with pintles 8 for bearing under the plate 1 at the sides of the slot, and the j grip 15 having serrated terminals and the :vbinding-screw, substantially as described.

In testimony that we'claim the foregoing as f our own we have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT E. DOTY. CHARLES MILLER. Witnesses:

JAMES S. CAMPBELL, ARTHUR MANN. 

